Door-holder.



H. 1. MOORE. DOOR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23. 1916.

Patented Aug. 21, 1917.

DOOR-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1917.

Application filed October 23, 1916. Serial No. 127,190.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I'IARRY J. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1V hitinsville, in the county of \Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in device for holding doors and like structures either closed or open or partly open, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the eliiciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device ofthis character which may be adjusted to adapt it to varying sizes of doors and to the varied distances between the bottom of the door and the floor or sill.

/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved device applied to a portion of a door with the compression member elevated in position in full lines and depressed into engagement with the floor or sill in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a detached perspective view of the base member of the improved device.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the face member, viewed from the inside.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and inclicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a base member represented as a whole at 10 and provided with lugs 11 perforated to receive holding screws by which the base may be attached to the door, a portion of which is represented at 12. The member 10 will be preferably attached to the door near its free edge and likewise near the floor a portion of which is represented at 13. The member 10 is formed with oppositely disposed vertical guide ribs 11 extending its entire length. The improved device likewise includes a face member 15 having its opposite longitudinal edges rabbeted to form vertical guide ways 16 adapted to slidably engage the guide ribs 1 1. The member 15 is provided with a longitudinally directed slot 17 the walls of which are undercut or beveled and through which a holding screw 17 passes and is threaded into a boss on the base member 10. By this means the face member 15 may be adjusted vertically within the range of the slot 17 and held in poupon the floor 13 when the member 19 is disposed in its lower position as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The face member 15 is likewise provided with a plurality of apertures 22 near its upper end, and pivoted at 23 in one of these apertures is a bell crank lever including arms 2425. Pivoted at 26 in the free end of the arm 2% is a connecting rod 27, the latter being pivoted at 28 to the member 19.

The arm 25 is turned outwardly at its free end as shown at 29 to enable the lever member 24.--25 to be actuated by the foot. A stop pin 30 projects from the face member 15 in position to limit the downward move ment of the arm 25.

With a device thus constructed it will be obvious that the gripping member or foot 2 1 may be adjusted by loosening the bolt 17 and adjusting the face member 15 vertically and then again tightening the bolt and holding the face member rigidly in position relative to the base member.

The members 10-15 may be constructed of any suitable size and of any suitable ma terial and plated, japanned or otherwise treated or protected. It will be noted that the face plate or member 15 is of greater length than the base member and serves to completely house and protect the base member and its attaching screws, while the rabbeted edges of the face plate by engagement with the ribs 1a not only serve to guide the face plate but also to prevent lateral displacement thereof.

Having thus described this invention, what is claimed as new is 1. A door check comprising a base memher having its opposite longitudinal edges provided With vertically disposed guiding ribs, said base'member being formed with a threaded opening disposed between the guiding ribs, a face plate slidably mounted on the base member and entirely covering said base member, said face plate having its opposite longitudinal edges rabbeted and adapted tobear against the guiding ribs, there being a longitudinally disposed slot formed in the face plate, the Walls of Which are inclined, a fastening device extending through the slot and engaging the threads of the opening, said fastening device being provided with a head conforming to and adapted to bear against the inclined Walls of the slot, a guiding sleeve secured to the lower portion of the face plate, a holding bolt slidably mounted in the guiding sleeve,

and means operatively connected with the upper end of the bolt for raising and lowering the latter.

2. A door check comprising a base mem ber having upper and lower perforated attaching lugs and provided with oppositely Copies of this patent may be obtained for disposed vertical guide ribs, said base member being formed with a threaded opening arranged between the guiding ribs, a face plate slidably mounted for vertical move ment on the base member and entirely covering said base member, said face plate having its opposite longitudinal edges rabbeted to form shoulders bearing against the inner faces of the guiding ribs, there being a longitudinal slot formed in the face plate and spaced apertures arranged above the slot, a guiding sleeve projecting laterally from the face plate and disposed in vertical alinement with the slot, a holding bolt slidably mounted in the guiding sleeve, a fastening device extending through the slot and engaging the threads of the opening, a bellcrank lever pivotally mounted in one of the apertures in the face plate, and a link form ing a pivotal connection between the short arm of the bell-crank lever and the adjacent end of the holding bolt.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

HARRY J. Moons. [Ls] five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

